Glove-form.



PATENTE D JUNE 7, 1904.

I I M. SMALL.

GLOVE FORM. ur'monmn nun ms. 15, 1904.

N0 MODEL.

Invert/601? I ,Wnesaea Patented June 7, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

MILDRED SMALL, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

GLOVE-FORM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 761,856, dated June 7, 1904. Application filed February 15, 1904. Serial No. 193,682. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MILDRED SMALL, a citizen of the United States,residing in Cincinnati, county of Hamilton, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Glove-Forms, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in forms for holding gloves to facilitate the cleaning or otherwise repairing of the glove; and the purpose of my invention is to provide a form which shall accurately fit the glove to be treated and at the same time to render it simple and easy to mount the glove on the form.

My purpose is attained by that certain novel construction of form to be hereinafter particularly pointed out and claimed, in which the essential feature consists in dividing the form into two parts, a finger portion and a thumb portion, the thumb portion being integral with the wrist portion, to which is permanently secured a clamp for mounting the form on a table or other desired support.

In the drawings, Figure'l is a perspective view of my improved form. Fig. 2 is a similar perspective view with the glove mounted on the form.

A represents the body portion of the form, made of wood or other suitable material and comprising the wrist portion a and the thumb b.

B represents the central portion of the hand with the four fingers o c integral therewith and also constructed of wood or other suitable material. These two portions of the form are intendedto fit accurately together, and the form is divided on a line running from the intersection of the base of the thumb and the index-finger to the upper medial line of the wrist and from that point at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the form, so as to obtain as extended divisional contact-surfaces d c between the two sections of the form as possible.

The thumb and wrist section A of the form is permanently mounted on the clamp O, provided with the thumb-screw D for securing same to the table E or other support.

For using the form the four fingers of the glove F are first fitted on the hand-section B and then the glove, with the hand-section of the form in place, is readily and easily fitted on the thumb b and thereupon fastened at the wrist. This fastening of the glove at the wrist brings the finger-section B in close contact with the thumb and wrist section, and the glove is held firmly and securely in place, so

that it can be readily and easily cleaned or otherwise repaired.

Of course it would be understood that various sizes of forms shall be furnished for the various sizes of gloves.

With an integral form for the entire hand it is very difficult to fit a glove of the size of the form over the thumb, and even where a pivoted flexible thumb form or removable thumb form has been employed this difliculty is still experienced where the thumb is of such shape as to closely fit the thumb of the glove.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A form for gloves, comprising two sections, a finger-section, and a thumb and wrist section, the line of division running from the intersection of the thumb and index-finger across the hand, forming means for supporting the thumb and Wrist section.

2. A form for gloves, comprising two sections, the line of division running from the intersection of the thumb and index-finger to the middle of the wrist and thence at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the form.

MILDRED SMA LL.

Witnesses:

GLENA PRITOHARD, R. P. HARGITT. 

